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London Irish appoints new chief executive

London Irish announced today that Brian Facer will be joining the club as its new chief executive.

Facer will arrive at
Hazelwood at the beginning of November after working for Northampton Saints as its commercial director.

London Irish president Mick
Crossan said Mr Facer was a unanimous choice.

He added: "This is an exciting time for
London Irish with our return to the Aviva Premiership and we feel that Brian is
the right person to lead the club as chief executive as we look to progress
both on the field and commercially."

Delays heading to Great Dorset Steam Fair

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Severe disruption: M25 Hertfordshire anti-clockwise

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M25 Hertfordshire anti-clockwise severe disruption, between J17 for A412 and J16 for M40.

M25 Hertfordshire - Slow traffic on M25 anticlockwise between J17, A412 (Maple Cross) and J16 M40, because of an earlier broken down vehicle. All lanes have been re-opened. Congestion to J18, A404 (Chorleywood).

Sophie Lancaster murder: Are young people still scared to be goths?

Sophie Lancaster was 20 when she was kicked to death by teenage boys - all because she was a goth. Ten years on, have attitudes changed or are young people scared to be different?

On the evening of 11 August 2007 Sophie and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were walking through Stubbylee Park in Bacup, Lancashire, when they were both attacked and left for dead. Robert woke from his coma a week later but Sophie never did.

Matthew Sly, 34, remembers similar experiences when growing up in Tadley, Hampshire.

"I know I was lucky I was only attacked once," he says. "I've always been about 6ft 1in and when people want to attack those for how they look, they tend to want to know what the outcome will be.

"I would still get shouts in the street though and it happened to a lot of people I knew. You just had to be prepared for it and we got used to it."